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Local Folk Shows in Nation s 1st Rural Arts Festival

Local Folk Shows in Nation s 1st Rural Arts Festival

Write: Evadine [2011-05-20]
Tags: folk art

Two cows, sometimes graze quietly, sometimes wrestle into a ball, then the two cowherds are busy in mediating between two cows. This was not the scene of life in the countryside, but Weiyuan bull lamp dance on the square of Beijing Agricultural Exhibition Hall. On June 16, the First Chinese Farmer's Arts Festival opens in Beijing, at which 13 local projects from Sichuan make wonderful debut.

The First Chinese Farmer's Arts Festival, which is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Culture, and China Federation of Literature and Art, is the first national organized art festival of farmers. With the theme of "display the new countryside and depicting new life ", the Festival highlights the three elements of folk style, provincialism charm and the World Expo affection, and the main contents includ three sectors of performances, exhibitions and international conferences.

In our province, through layers of selection, 13 projects that represent Sichuan special cultural brands have come to the fore to participate in the exhibition and performance.


Sichuan unique folk art attract the attention of many Beijing residents.


In the "Each village has its own flavor" Exhibition Hall, the artist from Neijiang is painting on the ancient linen canvas, which is full of charms. After eight generations of inheritance, the Langzhong shadow puppet, coupled with modern music, is fresh with new vitality. Under the thread and needle of the Shu embroidery women from Anjing town of Pixian, the two fish come to life. In the exhibition hall of masterpieces in farmer painting, Jinyan farmers' paintings, full of local flavor, attract many visitors to stop for appreciation with their rich colors maize is painted red and purple and exaggerated form pumpkin is bigger than a man. The responsible person of Jinyan county introduces that a total of 20 farmer paintings from the county are being exhibited, the number of which ranks among the highest of similar works, and after the exhibition they will all be collected by the National Agricultural Exhibition Center.